Re: Guide for Selecting a Discrete Video Card

The EVGA 670 is a 9.5"+ card so be sure to measure inside your PC and make sure that it fits. There are other NVIDIA 670s that are cheaper at www.newegg.com Make sure that using are a 500+ watt power supply that has two 6 pin PCI-E power connectors.

The EVGA card that you reference has a 4 GB frame buffer. Do you need that large of a frame buffer? Perhaps this EVGA 670 would better fit your needs.

It's my understanding the EVGA has video card bios updates for their 640 and above series cards to allow the cards to work with UEFI mode and secure boot. I don't know the exact update procedure but I suspect that you would have to boot up in legacy mode with secure boot disabled and then apply the video bios update. You have to email EVGA and request the update and approved procedure. Maybe the 670 will already come with the latest video bios.

Re: Guide for Selecting a Discrete Video Card

If you do some research, you will find that the NVIDIA GTX 460 seems to be referenced as a good gaming card. I use the GTX 460 with some modern games and it runs quite well on high to ultra with a screen resolution of 1920 by 1080 using default settings.

AMD 6850 if you still find it ---> 127 watt

AMD 7850 ----------------------> 130 watt

NVIDIA 660 ---------------------> 140 watt

NVIDIA 660 TI -------------------> 150 watt

All of the above referenced should be able to run WoW.

As for a power supply, go for a high efficiency (Bronze rated or higher) PSU that has a large exhaust fan(120mm or larger). The standard HP power supply dimensions are 5.9 by 3.4 by 5.5. The Corsair CX500 or CX600 would be excellent choices.

I have upgraded the memory to 4GB and i would like to try out a graphics card with a HDMI output to see what it looks like on a 27 inch samsng monitor that i am using. I know it has an express slot, but how do i go about chosing a card - RAM capacity, memory type, number of bits, and all that?